Stanley Manufacturing Co. v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

Opinion by

Wright, J.,

This case arises under the Unemployment Compensation Law, Act of December 5, 1936, P. L. (1937) 2897, 43 P.S. 751 et seq., and involves the first application by this court of the most recent amendment to Section 401(f) (2) of the statute, 43 P.S. 801(f) (2). It will be necessary to recite the history of the case in some detail.

Mrs. Nancy G. Colbert was last employed as a presser by Stanley Manufacturing Company, Chambers-burg, Pennsylvania. It was a known policy of this employer that, in case of pregnancy, the employe must not work beyond the first six months of the…